{"product_id":"texas-takes-shape-a-history-in-maps-from-the-general-land-office-hardback-9781477330920","title":"Texas Takes Shape; A History in Maps from the General Land Office (Hardback) 9781477330920","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History in Maps from the General Land Office\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Lambert (Author), James Harkins (Author), Brian A. Stauffer (Author), Patrick Walsh (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330920\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 228 color images\u003cbr\u003e30.5 x 27.9 x 3.3 cm, 2.554 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully illustrated and designed book of the most comprehensive map collection relating to Texas. Texas is unique in the Union in that it retained ownership of its public land, and this book makes clear that the creative and judicious use of that land is, in many ways, the creation story of present-day Texas.\u003c\/div\u003e - Ron Tyler, University of Texas at Austin, author of Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/i\u003e is an astoundingly beautiful work of visual history. Surveying the Texas past through more than a hundred historical maps, this collection offers readers a remarkable new window into how individuals and empires have imagined, explored, and fought over the lands that became Texas. For anyone interested in understanding how maps have literally shaped the modern landscape of Texas, this is an absolute must-read.\u003c\/div\u003e - Andrew J. Torget, University of North Texas, author of Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/i\u003e is both a guide to the extensive and ever-increasing map collection of the Texas General Land Office and a remarkable study of maps of Texas and the Southwest. This handsome and colorful volume is a pleasure for the eye of the book collector but also a treat for the reader who wants to understand how maps framed understandings of the state and the region over several centuries.\u003c\/div\u003e - Kenneth Hafertepe, Baylor University, author of The Material Culture of German Texans\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The Texas General Land Office’s map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it one of the most important cartographic archives in Texas. As products and agents of history drawn by cartographers with motives and means as diverse as the places they document, maps provide a unique perspective on geopolitical, cultural, and economic processes. The maps of the GLO offer key insights into Texas’s sprawling history. They speak to issues of changing borders, social and political upheaval, and questions of sovereignty and power. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/i\u003e offers an illuminating selection from the GLO archive: over one hundred maps that tell-and sometimes obscure-the stories of European colonization, Spanish and Mexican rule, the Republic of Texas, and the modern US state. There are maps here of every scale, from the hemispheric visions of European explorers to individual survey plats. Accompanying essays offer fascinating lessons on topics ranging from Indigenous cartography to military and railroad mapmaking and frontier surveys. Artful and informative, \u003ci\u003eTexas Takes Shape\u003c\/i\u003e examines a unique place through the eyes and imaginations of those who sought to govern it, profit from it, understand it, and call it home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Maps \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword by Dawn Buckingham \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Defining Texas \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Mapping the New World: An Age of Discovery \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-Uncovering the Base Layer: Indigenous Cartography in North America \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Competing Empires: Maps as Knowledge and Power, 1671–\u003cbr\u003e1830 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-Compasses and Crucifixes: Priests and Friars in the Mapping of Spanish North America \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Mapping Mexico: Uneven Geography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-From the “\u003cbr\u003eDead Desert”\u003cbr\u003e to the “\u003cbr\u003eWonderland of Agriculture and Opportunity”\u003cbr\u003e: Mapping the Nueces Strip 000: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. The Lone Star Rises: Maps of the Republic of Texas, 1835–\u003cbr\u003e1846 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-”\u003cbr\u003eA continued succession of abrupt sinuousities”\u003cbr\u003e: The Joint Boundary Commission and the Republic of Texas, 1838–\u003cbr\u003e1841 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Republic of Texas is no more”\u003cbr\u003e: The Lone Star State Takes Shape \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-The Art and Cartography of Eltea Armstrong \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Developing Texas \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. Contested Frontier: Pathfinders, Soldiers, and Military Maps \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-Land for Military Service: Bounty, Donation, and Confederate Scrip \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. Connecting a Continent: Texas Land and the Expanding American Railroad System \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-Frontier Surveying in Texas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 8. All Boundaries Are Local: GLO County Maps \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-Drawing Conclusions: Manuscript Cartouches in the GLO \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 9. The Growth and Urbanization of Texas: City Maps at the GLO \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Neatline-”\u003cbr\u003eComplete Success”\u003cbr\u003e to Obsolescence: The Photographic Bureau of the GLO, 1861–\u003cbr\u003e1874 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusions. Texas History on the Digital Frontier: Improving Access through Preservation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About the Authors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739469574424,"sku":"9781477330920","price":31.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/texas-takes-shape-a-history-in-maps-from-the-general-land-office-hardback-9781477330920","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}